How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's site hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all web page hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the total absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to learn... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting companies:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...